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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Dashboard - Ability to Modify or Hide the Standard Templates

When you go to create a Dashboard you are presented with a blank template. It has no header/footer on it. As a government agency we need to have specific headers and footers for compliance reasons. You can use the Text Widget to create labels to a...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Donut Charts to run in PDF format

Most of our reporting for business users are in PDF format, since that is the preferred version for them. We have a new report request, where we are looking to add a semi-donut chart to the report for our Key Metric, but unfortunately Donut charts...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Planned for future release

Excel options in cognos viewer

Veiw in excel options shows as excel 2007,but if cognos supports 2010 version also. why can't it be independent of version likeView in Excel Data OnlyView in Excel
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Framework Manager option to Kill database requested in case of failed

Our team use IBM Cognos Framework Manager product to design and publish packages use on Cognos Report Studio mainly but in some cases the queries created failed with error: "A socket reported a communication error".The previous error was identifie...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Naming Excel report name based on Prompt

We currently can name excel tabs based on selection but we want to see if we can replicate that with actual file name. So let's say Run the excel Cognos report call "Shoes" and comes open Prompt page with selections "Men" and "Women". If I select ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to expand the area of MANAGE tab in navigation bar

Add option to expand the area of MANAGE tab in navigation bar the same way as when navigating though folders. The names of cognos roles and groups do not appear as soon as they are long, instead we see dots.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Hijri calendar support to IBM Cognos Analytics

Enable Hijri ( Um Al Qura ) calendar support in Cognos Analytics: User profile preferences "Calendar type" (like Gregorian and Japanese Imperial) in each of the following: Reporting and Dashboards, the Data format dialog, when formatting as date o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Relative Time Members Prior Year QTD / MTD Change and % Growth

Cube Designer for Dynamic Cubes automatically generates, if chosen, Prior Periods and Prior Periods to Date relative time members. However, currently, only the only Prior Period to Date members are for 'Prior Year to Date' without members for 'Pri...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to do Filter for Report without fetching a list of values

When querying from a package in Query Studio the prompt option can be configured in Framework Manager to be an edit box, which prevents millions of values to be retrieved from the database for detail query items. In Report, the Filter for Report o...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Build automatically Function in Report Studio

In previous version (impromtu) there was an automatic build up of the function/help available at the moment you started the expression. This nice feature is lost in time. would be nice to get this back as many users are struggling with enterring t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release